The Candice Malcolm Show - Legacy media obsess over skin colour at Conservative rallies

00:00:00.000 Legacy media journalists are freaking out about the size of Pierre Polyev's rallies,

00:00:04.720 but rather than critique Polyev for his ideas or his policy positions,

00:00:08.840 they're instead accusing him of, you guessed it, racism.

00:00:12.160 It's Fake News Friday, I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:00:14.800 Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for tuning into the program, and welcome to Fake News Friday,

00:00:31.740 our favorite show here at The Candice Malcolm Show, where we go through the week's news

00:00:36.480 and dissect just how bad, just how biased the media is here in Canada, and there are just so

00:00:42.160 many examples. I mean, I could just go through the CBC every day and point out the thousand

00:00:46.680 different ways that that network is just so beyond bias, but I have to boil it down to one

00:00:52.400 episode a week here, so I'll try to do my best. Now, Pierre Polyev is really dominating the news

00:00:57.840 cycle. He's really putting together an impressive campaign just by the sheer size of the crowds that

00:01:03.740 he has showing up to support him, to listen to his ideas, to hear him out. He really has that

00:01:08.340 enthusiasm factor, and so because there are so many Canadians that are paying attention to Pierre

00:01:13.660 Polyev and his campaign, the media needed to find something to attack him over, and it's really an

00:01:20.480 interesting position because Polyev is a fiscal conservative, and his almost his entire campaign

00:01:25.760 is focused on fiscal matters. He's not talking about social issues. He's not talking about cultural

00:01:29.940 issues. He's really zeroing in on the sort of intersection between issues that harm young people,

00:01:36.960 preventing young people from really fully joining the Canadian economy and living out the Canadian

00:01:41.780 dream, and the economics. So he's talking a lot about housing. He's talking a lot about inflation,

00:01:46.180 the rising cost of goods and services in this country, and it's really resonating, obviously, because

00:01:51.360 he has that momentum that we talked about. Now, again, instead of going after the points of what

00:01:58.360 Pierre is saying, instead, the media is fixated on this idea that his rallies are too white. Yes, you heard

00:02:05.460 that correctly, that there are too many white people showing up to his rallies. Now, last time I 0.50

00:02:09.960 checked, we live in Canada, which is a democracy where all people are equal under the law. Every

00:02:15.120 single person, it doesn't matter what color your skin is, what your national origin is, what your

00:02:19.020 ethnicity is, we're all Canadian, and we all count the same. We're all equal. But to the legacy media,

00:02:24.440 too many of the pundits in legacy media, they see these rallies, they think that there are too many

00:02:28.620 white people, and then that becomes a storyline. Rather than focusing again on the success of this 0.57

00:02:33.640 politician in his messaging, the ideas that he's talking about how it's resonating, they instead

00:02:38.400 pull up the race card and accuse Pierre Polyev of somehow being racist because they think that

00:02:44.420 there are too many white people in the audience. I kid you not. So here is Warren Concella writing

00:02:48.680 in the Toronto Sun. He writes, Pierre Polyev has the conservative hype, but not the conservative

00:02:53.500 substance. And then this is a quote from the piece, Pierre Polyev with his night rallies filled with

00:02:59.240 pink skin and gray heads. So not even calling them white, calling them pink skin, which is kind of 0.95

00:03:06.300 racist, kind of racist to use that language to describe people. But but Warren Concella does it

00:03:11.460 anyway, with pink skin and gray heads is prompting me to ask that question to myself, am I wrong? And so

00:03:19.340 again, so there's something lesser about the people who are coming to Pierre's rally because of the color of

00:03:24.840 their skin and the color of their hair. Like what year is this? What country are we living in? Because

00:03:29.440 it doesn't seem like it should be modern day Canada. And he goes on to say pocket protector and Texas

00:03:35.780 instrument calculator in hand. He's giddily knocking down all the sacred totems of the conservative

00:03:40.560 movement and the conservative sitting cheek to jowl in his white people rallies are cool with that. So

00:03:45.320 again, they're trying to create this storyline that these are white people rallies, that the whole

00:03:49.960 conservative movement is just a big white supremacist movement. And that the rallies are only for white

00:03:54.840 people. They're white people only. Well, Warren Concella wasn't alone. Steve Marr, who is a 0.93

00:03:59.620 journalist, a freelancer, and he writes over at McLean's and other places. He too wrote on Twitter,

00:04:04.840 he said, it is a whole lot of white people. If I was Polyev, I would be wondering why I am only 0.98

00:04:10.440 attracting white people. Of course, this isn't true. Nothing about this is true. This idea that he's

00:04:16.400 only attracting white people. It isn't true. True North's own Harrison Faulkner, who's usually joining me on the

00:04:22.700 show today. He's feeling ill today. But he went to the Pierre Polyev rally in downtown Toronto to find

00:04:29.800 out for himself, to do some original reporting, to find out for himself whether or not it was only

00:04:34.700 white people. At the rallies, of course, he interviewed a whole range of people who are not

00:04:39.060 white, asking them about this strange storyline about how these are white people only rallies,

00:04:44.740 why the media is focusing on this idea that isn't even true. No, these are not white people

00:04:49.700 rallies. These are rallies of Canadians. And lots of different kinds of Canadians are there.

00:04:54.280 Journalists can close their eyes or, you know, look in one direction only and look at a handful

00:04:59.360 of people and say, oh, they're all white, while ignoring the other half of the room. They can go

00:05:02.980 ahead and do that. That is not the case in reality. And Harrison Faulkner did a good job of disproving

00:05:08.200 that by going to that rally in Toronto. Now, funny, funnily enough, the rally in downtown Toronto was at

00:05:14.260 a place called Steam Whistle Brewery, which is a very iconic location in downtown Toronto. It's a

00:05:18.980 beautiful venue and they create beer. It's sort of known as one of Toronto's sort of flagship

00:05:25.080 independent breweries and beer, Steam Whistle is. But for some reason, after the rally, Steam Whistle

00:05:32.340 thought it was necessary to put out a statement, basically dissonancing themselves and condemning

00:05:37.540 Pierre Polyev. So they wrote this, Steam Whistle is a new way affiliated with the Pierre Polyev campaign,

00:05:42.240 does not endorse his political views, nor did the brewery support this event. We do not choose our

00:05:47.200 clients. Rather, they choose our venue for its amenities, size and location. So this is a pretty

00:05:52.460 weak statement from Steam Whistle, this whole idea that they would have to distance themselves from a

00:05:57.320 politician. Look, lots and lots of politicians do rallies at Steam Whistle. It's a beautiful venue and a

00:06:02.200 great location in Toronto. So this idea that rather than cancel the event, they went ahead and had the

00:06:07.820 event. They took the money from Pierre Polyev. They were happy to cash in on his popularity and

00:06:13.300 his brand and all the people that showed up. But then afterwards, they had to virtue signal to their

00:06:18.100 leftist, I don't know, the leftists that work there or the leftists in downtown Toronto who were

00:06:24.260 apparently outraged that Pierre Polyev was able to hold the event. Look, the guy is one of the front

00:06:29.160 runners in the race to become the Conservative leader of Canada. The Conservative Party of Canada is one of the

00:06:34.160 two major parties in this country. It is very likely that whoever wins the Conservative Party of Canada

00:06:39.700 leadership race will go on to become the next prime minister. So we're talking about a mainstream

00:06:43.500 political party and a mainstream politician. And this weird idea that Steam Whistle is treating it 0.95

00:06:47.820 like he's some kind of a pariah and some kind of a fringe figure that they have to condemn is just 0.99

00:06:52.400 pathetic. What a bad look for Steam Whistle. I don't drink beer. I don't drink their beer, certainly. But if I 1.00

00:06:57.660 did, I would probably think twice about that because that is is pretty pathetic. Now I want to 0.98

00:07:03.560 transition a little bit here because interestingly, there was a piece on CBC this morning, top piece

00:07:09.480 over on National News Watch, and they do go after Pierre Polyev. So so it isn't just the rallies that

00:07:15.340 they're going after. This piece goes after the political rhetoric on inflation saying it is out

00:07:20.260 of touch with reality. So as I mentioned, one of Pierre Polyev's top issues that he talks about

00:07:25.300 is inflation. He is very, very concise and very articulate when it comes to this issue. I've had him on the

00:07:31.240 show before to explain it, and he explains it better than just about anyone else out there.

00:07:35.880 But according to the CBC, doing the dirty work for Justin Trudeau, as per usual, this is like part of

00:07:41.120 their mandate that if someone is out there criticizing Justin Trudeau, the CBC swoops in and writes a piece

00:07:47.300 in their defense. So here it is. Political rhetoric on inflation is out of touch with reality,

00:07:51.680 experts say. Again, I have a longstanding position that anytime there's a term experts say in the

00:07:58.000 headline, it should not be filed under news, it should be filed under opinion, because it is their

00:08:02.500 opinion. They find some experts that they agree with, whoever the writer, whoever the author of

00:08:06.620 this piece is, they find some experts that they agree with. And then rather than putting out an

00:08:10.960 opinion piece that people will say, okay, this is opinion, this isn't news, they put it out under news

00:08:14.800 so that the public gets the perception that these experts are like the universal source and that

00:08:19.600 everyone agrees. No, this is an opinion by someone, and it is a bad opinion, and I'll go through it.

00:08:23.960 It's a bad take. But again, the CBC puts this out as straight news to mislead Canadians to defend

00:08:29.880 their man, Justin Trudeau. So basically, the whole piece is about, yes, prices are rising in Canada,

00:08:35.180 they're rising fast. They quote Statistics Canada, as you probably saw the Consumer Price Index. So

00:08:40.920 inflation is up 6.7%. So prices are nearly 7% higher today than they were on this day last year. So

00:08:49.320 end of April 2021, about 7% higher, it's the largest spike, the largest growth in inflation

00:08:56.080 since January 1991. 1991. So we're talking 30 years. And so what is the cause of this inflation,

00:09:05.660 according to the CBC? Well, it has nothing to do with government, nothing to do with government. No,

00:09:10.860 it's all about international pressures and the supply chain issues, according to the CBC. So they take

00:09:16.920 a whole bunch of swipes at Pierre Polyev. Here, I'll read a little bit more. It says,

00:09:21.340 Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Polyev, former finance critic who is widely considered

00:09:25.860 to be the frontrunner in the race, has made inflation a central part of his campaign. Polyev claims that

00:09:30.160 Trudeau government's approach to spending and taxation is a major force of driving inflation.

00:09:34.820 They quote Polyev. And then they go, is Polyev right? Is government fiscal policy driving up the

00:09:41.600 prices? Well, lo and behold, the CBC has found a leftist economist here,

00:09:45.240 Jean-Paul Lam, an economics professor at the University of Waterloo, to say, no, no. Government

00:09:51.560 spending is just a very modest, it's just a modest part of this. There's so many factors involved.

00:09:57.580 And in government, it's just very modest. Everything else is more. He says, economic support

00:10:03.700 programs related to the pandemic are a significant reason the federal deficit is so large. The federal

00:10:08.640 deficit is projected to be $53 billion. But that doesn't come close to explaining the rate of

00:10:13.180 inflation we're seeing. It's a minor factor, according to this economist. Likewise, Trevor

00:10:18.720 Toome over at the University of Calgary, another leftist economist, says that Polyev's correctness

00:10:24.380 says that government spending and taxation can be a factor in inflation. But, he says, the federal

00:10:30.180 government's decision on spending and taxation don't have much of a relationship to the other, meaning

00:10:34.940 inflation. More important factors are forcing prices upwards. He says this is a quote from an

00:10:40.920 economist. It really doesn't matter what Canada's government spends. It really doesn't matter what

00:10:47.300 Canada's government spends, according to an economist quoted by the CBC. You really can't make this stuff

00:10:53.500 up. Anytime someone's criticizing Trudeau, the CBC sweeps in. I've got another example later in the show of

00:10:58.280 the CBC doing just that. They do it over and over and over again. This is what they do. They defend Justin

00:11:03.000 Trudeau. And it doesn't just stop there, because I think balance, according to the CBC, is defending

00:11:09.060 Justin Trudeau from the left and the right. You know, the one thing that we're taught in journalism

00:11:12.040 school, and that all journalists know, is that you're supposed to present some kind of a balance

00:11:15.540 in a news piece. So, present one side, then present the other side. Well, in the case of this

00:11:20.460 piece on politicians misleading the public, they take balance to mean we defend Justin Trudeau from

00:11:28.400 attacks on the right from the conservatives, and we defend Justin Trudeau from attacks on the left

00:11:33.260 against the NDP. So, they take a swipe at Jagmeet Singh, the NDP leader. They say, what about those

00:11:38.440 big corporations? So, it says NDP leader Jagmeet Singh took to Instagram Wednesday to talk about

00:11:43.160 the rising cost of living. And in that, he talks about corporate greed. And so, the CBC refutes that

00:11:49.180 part as well. They never go after Trudeau. They never say that there's anything wrong with Justin

00:11:53.760 Trudeau's massive spending spree that he's gone on. Of course, anyone who knows anything about

00:11:57.840 inflation, anyone who's taken an economics class in high school or university, knows that the major

00:12:02.740 cause of inflation is the growth in the money supply. The fact that Justin Trudeau has been

00:12:07.400 spending so much money, borrowing so much money, and that the Bank of Canada has been printing so

00:12:12.960 much money, in part, to keep up with Justin Trudeau's spending spree. So, just look at the

00:12:17.480 growth in the money supply. The money supply is directly connected to inflation. So, this is from

00:12:22.340 January 2022. Canada's money supply expanded by 10% last year. It expanded 14% the year before. These are

00:12:31.060 the biggest surges since the 1980s. So, again, it's no wonder why we have inflation. And yet,

00:12:36.460 the CBC couldn't have found a single economist to talk about the money supply, to talk about the

00:12:41.080 real reason behind inflation. Instead, they found two economists to just sort of hand wave and say,

00:12:46.480 oh, no, nothing to do with Justin Trudeau. It's all because of Russia. It's all because of Ukraine. 0.71

00:12:50.720 It has nothing to do with our reckless government policies. What an absolute joke. What a total

00:12:56.340 disservice to Canadians. Now, I did want to pick up on this video of Jagmeet Singh because it is one of

00:13:03.240 the most juvenile, ridiculous takes I have ever seen in Canadian politics. Jagmeet Singh, leader of 0.88

00:13:08.520 the NDP party, puts out a video, the very, very, very simplistic, like 18-year-old communist kind of

00:13:16.040 stuff, saying that the real reason that prices are going up, not because of inflation, not because of

00:13:21.120 Justin Trudeau's spending, but because of corporate greed. Okay, corporate greed. I want to play you this

00:13:25.960 video to show you just how silly and ridiculous it is. So here is Jagmeet Singh. The cost of 0.99

00:13:32.040 everything is going up. Some say it's because of supply chain issues. Some say it's because the

00:13:36.360 government spent money on programs to help people in need. Here's the truth. Why is the cost of

00:13:41.320 everything going up? Simple answer, greed. When the cost of things go up, it hurts some people,

00:13:47.740 but it benefits those at the very top. And it's not the grocery store workers, those that stock the

00:13:53.100 shelves, farmers that grow your food, or small businesses and grocery stores like this. Large

00:13:58.920 corporations, big box stores, and big retail are making record profits in this time. Okay, wait,

00:14:04.040 just hold it right there. Okay, so this idea that Jagmeet Singh is saying that it isn't the fault of

00:14:08.900 independent grocers and local grocers like the one that he's in, but he just blames it on greed of these

00:14:14.260 big box stores. Okay, that defies the very basic logic of Econ 101. Because the idea, if it was just

00:14:20.680 greedy, greedy people sitting in Walmart and Loblaws and these big box stores, then the smaller places

00:14:25.940 would have a huge opportunity, a huge market opportunity to undercut them in price. Because

00:14:29.580 as Jagmeet Singh is saying, they're not greedy. It's not their fault. So they could just charge a much

00:14:34.180 lower price. And then consumers wouldn't go to the big box stores, they would go to the little ones.

00:14:38.480 Of course, what Jagmeet Singh is saying is complete nonsense. What, did greed just suddenly come up

00:14:43.440 in the last year? You know, the actual cause of inflation rising at 7% this year over last year

00:14:51.120 is because corporations just suddenly became 7% more greedy. That doesn't make any sense. It's

00:14:57.280 silly. It's so ridiculous. Let's keep playing Jagmeet Singh. Why should you pay more and more 1.00

00:15:02.960 just so that large corporations can make more and more profit? It's a rigged system set up that way

00:15:09.540 by liberals and conservatives. That's why new Democrats are demanding that we tax the excess

00:15:14.740 profits of large corporations and invest that back into people. Housing, healthcare, the climate crisis.

00:15:20.900 We can tackle all these problems if we make the super rich start paying their fair share. 0.64

00:15:25.460 We have to end the free ride for the super rich.

00:15:28.340 Again, Jagmeet Singh just has the most juvenile takes. It's so sophomoric. It doesn't even make any

00:15:33.860 sense. A couple points. First of all, big box stores were the ones that got special exempt exemptions

00:15:38.900 during the pandemic. So when the mom and pop stores were closed, those big guys were allowed to stay

00:15:43.620 open. Even when churches were closed, you could still go in to Walmart and Superstore and Costco.

00:15:49.700 So this whole idea that somehow big box stores are to blame, no, that would be government policy that

00:15:57.220 enabled them to make more profits because the government was the one that allowed it to be that way.

00:16:02.260 And this idea that what does it even mean by excess profits, excess profits? At what point is it

00:16:08.740 excess, right? Like you're talking about a big company that employs thousands, tens of thousands

00:16:13.060 of people across the province, across the country, all of these big box stores. And so this idea that

00:16:18.900 he's just attacking corporations, it's actually shocking that this is the state of the new Democrat

00:16:26.020 party. This is the best that they can come up with. Someone wrote that script, vetted it,

00:16:29.700 and Jagmeet Singh recorded it. And they thought, wow, this is just going to totally convince the

00:16:33.780 Canadian population that we are the ones that should be in government, in power. We can fix this

00:16:39.780 problem. It's so silly. It's so pathetic. Our friend JJ McCullough over on Twitter wrote that Jagmeet Singh 0.95

00:16:46.020 has just posted a really incoherent YouTube video and turned the comments off. How is this guy still the

00:16:52.020 head of a major party? Great question. JJ. Okay, now I want to go back to this other CBC story that I

00:16:58.580 alluded here earlier, because again, this is the definition, this is definitional fake news. Okay,

00:17:03.220 so, so the CBC, and I mentioned this on the show the other day, I had Chris Sims, who broke the story

00:17:08.500 about the truck tax that was being proposed in a liberal government report. She came on this show to

00:17:13.860 really explain what was going on. We talked a little bit about this Erin Weary piece. Erin Weary is a

00:17:19.300 liberal stenographer who writes for the CBC. Every time that Trudeau is criticized, he comes up with a

00:17:26.660 perfectly aligned liberal spin, like, like, whatever the PMO is saying, Erin Weary is saying

00:17:31.620 word for word, almost the exact same thing. And he puts it out in the CBC as news, or they call it

00:17:36.580 analysis, which is supposed to be like halfway between opinion and straight news. So, so, so what

00:17:42.740 happened was Chris Sims found in a report released by the environment minister, Stephen Galbault,

00:17:47.940 saying that they were going to introduce this tax on pickup trucks anywhere between one thousand

00:17:52.900 and four thousand dollars. It wasn't a law, it wasn't a bill, it was just a recommendation that was

00:17:58.100 part of their climate change plan for 2030, right? So it was in the report released by the government.

00:18:04.020 Well, as soon as Chris Sims put that report out over in the Toronto Sun, the minister himself came

00:18:08.900 out and said, no, we're not actually planning on introducing this tax. This report is disinformation,

00:18:13.780 it is fake news. So trying to use the exact same language that they use in their internet

00:18:19.220 censorship bills to discredit a factual truth-based report based on something the minister himself

00:18:25.860 put out, but saying that that is disinformation, which once again just sort of proves the theory

00:18:30.580 that disinformation is simply something that the liberal government doesn't agree with. So any

00:18:34.420 critiques against liberal government, disinformation. Any information that makes the liberal government

00:18:38.660 look bad? Disinformation. This is the, this is the routine, this is the game that the Trudeau

00:18:43.460 liberals are playing, and too many in the legacy media are all too happy to go along with that.

00:18:47.940 So right in the midst of this, of this sort of debacle between the liberal government and the

00:18:52.420 Canadian Taxpayers Federation, well the CBC and Aaron Weary swoop in to, you guessed it, take the side

00:18:58.500 of Justin Trudeau, condemn the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, call them fake news, call them

00:19:02.740 disinformation, repeat almost verbatim exactly what the liberals are saying. So here's Aaron Weary's piece.

00:19:08.260 Some conservatives are condemning a truck tax that doesn't exist. And so his whole point was that,

00:19:13.620 again, it wasn't a bill, it wasn't a law, it was just a recommendation that was part of a report.

00:19:18.980 He made the distinction that the recommendation came in the annex and it wasn't even in the report.

00:19:24.980 Well, as Chris Sims pointed out on my show when she joined me, was that that's how government policy

00:19:30.020 works. That's how they introduce bills. They introduce these, these reports, there are recommendations,

00:19:35.140 the recommendations get adopted and they turn into bills. So Chris Sims, doing her job as a watchdog

00:19:40.660 for the Taxpayers Association, preemptively said, hey, look, they're planning to do this, don't let

00:19:45.380 them. And so Weary's whole point that it doesn't exist. Yeah, of course it doesn't exist. We're

00:19:50.020 talking about the liberals proposing something. The liberals saying that they are planning to propose

00:19:54.340 it, that it's part of a recommendation of a report, meaning it is forthcoming. Chris Sims did her

00:19:59.060 job exactly right, which was getting in front of it and saying, don't let them do that. She was

00:20:03.300 successful because now they're all walking away from it. But Aaron Weary doing his favorite little

00:20:07.380 snarky routine, looking down his nose at conservatives saying, oh, they're, they're getting

00:20:11.380 all worked up over something that doesn't exist. Yeah, because they're trying to stop it from being

00:20:16.580 imposed, Aaron Weary. And again, just this whole idea, this whole narrative, this whole thing that,

00:20:21.140 that this, that the conservatives are just making this up and that the Canadian Taxpayers

00:20:24.980 Federation are pushing disinformation such a, such a disservice. A journalist is supposed to hold

00:20:30.500 the government to account. Okay. The whole, the powerful people to account. That's not what the

00:20:34.740 CBC does. The CBC swoops in to rescue Justin Trudeau, to hold his critics to account. So they hold

00:20:42.740 the people who criticize Justin Trudeau. Those are the ones they hold to account rather than holding

00:20:46.340 Justin Trudeau to account, rather than holding his ministers and the people who are saying, hey,

00:20:50.020 let's introduce his pickup tax, pickup truck tax to account. The CBC does the

00:20:54.900 exact opposite. They point their ear at the public, at independent researchers,

00:21:00.420 at independent journalists and say, how dare you criticize Justin Trudeau? Here is a whole report

00:21:07.140 about how technically this tax doesn't exist. This is such a joke. This is not journalism.

00:21:12.740 This is activism. This is stenography. The CBC time and time and time again,

00:21:18.100 writes pieces with the sole purpose of defending Justin Trudeau, defending the prime minister's office.

00:21:23.860 Again, this could have been a news release put out by the PMO. It should have been. Your tax dollars

00:21:28.340 should not go to this kind of nonsense. It is not journalism. It is activism, plain and simple.

00:21:34.340 Thank you so much for tuning in. It's Fake News Friday.

00:21:36.740 I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

The Candice Malcolm Show - April 22, 2022

Legacy media obsess over skin colour at Conservative rallies

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